Sanada Nobushige seems not satisfied with the status quo.
She has the Thousand Stone Territory and the Sanada Group. It is more capable of tossing than before, and it can also create greater movement.
She dared to target Iwaki City, or even the entire Azuma River Basin, in order to get involved in the Kanto chaos. Her courage was really frightening.
Hearing his daughter Masayuki Sanada's complaint, Yukitaka Sanada smiled slightly. She knew that her daughter might not really complain, but she was just testing her own mind.
When Yukitaka Sanada sent Nobushige Sanada to the Kanto Palace, he took a good look at Yoshigan Shiba's character and left a way out for the Sanada family.
Now it seems that whether it is Shiba Yoshigan or Sanada Nobushige, he has underestimated their magnanimity.
Shiba Yoshigan promoted Sanada Nobushige with all his strength, hoping to win over the Shino clan and help him infiltrate into the circle of the Kanto samurai family.
And Sanada Nobushige was not willing to be a humble person, and wanted to achieve his own career by taking advantage of the general trend of Echigo Kanto Strategy.
Yukitaka Sanada couldn't help but be moved by it, seeing the opportunity for the Sanada family to become a powerful name.
As for her daughter Masayuki Sanada, she is even more worried about the future of her two daughters. One family and two businesses, who will be older and who will be younger in the future? What if Xiao Qiang is in trouble and kills each other?
Yukitaka Sanada is well aware of her daughter's worries, but she can only pretend not to know. The world is in chaos, and I don’t know if my family can survive the troubled times. How can I care about dividing up the big and small at home?
Whoever has the ability should try his best to expand his family business quickly. The most important thing is not to let the whole family die in troubled times.
And Sanada Nobushige's ambition for Nishi Ueno was a golden opportunity.
Echigo's Kanto strategy was imminent. Yukitaka Sanada, who had experienced the Battle of Kawanakajima, determined that the Hojo family could not stop Echigo's army.
Not to mention Terutora Uesugi, who is well versed in military strategy and possesses powerful force. Just a move from Yoshigan Shiba, a strange man in the world, was enough for the Hojo family to stumble.
Nobushige Sanada follows Yoshigan Shiba, and maybe he can really make Hojo fall and Sanada eat up. Taking the opportunity to open up a family business in Nishi Ueno and find a new way out of the Sanada family's predicament.
Yukitaka Sanada said.
"Since Nobushige has written for help, we will give her a push. This opportunity cannot be missed. If I miss this opportunity to conquer the Kanto region, I'm afraid I will regret it in the future."
The east wind doesn't come often. Pigs are everywhere, but it's hard to find a suitable wind outlet.
Echigo's Kanto Strategy is considered the best outlet for the Sanada family to develop upwards. It would be a pity for Yukitaka Sanada not to let Nobushige Sanada take advantage of it.
Sanada Masayuki frowned.
"Concentrate resources to support Nobushige, so the construction of Ueda Castle needs to be slowed down?"
Yukitaka Sanada glanced at his daughter and knew what she wanted to ask. The construction of Ueda Castle was the most important task that the Sanada family originally decided to carry out this year, and it was left to the eldest granddaughter Yukiyuki Sanada.
Since the Takeda family gave up going north, the situation in Beishin has eased, and the development of the Sanada family has also reached a bottleneck.
The Kawanakajima Plain was divided into two after the war, with the north belonging to the Murakami family and the Ogasawara family, and the south belonging to the Takeda family.
The Matsushiro area to the east, together with Kaijin Castle, was handed over to Yoshiba Shiba as a buffer zone to ensure that there would be no further disputes between the two parties.
The Chikuma River does not reach the upper reaches of Mt. Tsumame. Along the way to Toshin in the south, the most important stronghold is Toishi Castle entrenched in Mount Taro, which is the current residence of Yukitaka Sanada.
Toishi Castle, looking east to the Sanada Basin where Sanada Township is located, and south to the Ueda Basin, is the most important stronghold between the North and the East.
Sanada Township and Toishi Castle were enveloped by Takeda Haru and given to Sanada Yukitaka. This is the base for the revival of the Sanada family.
The deepest valley to the north of the Sanada Basin is the ancient Matsuo Castle, which is the seat of the Sanada family. However, Toishi Castle is a mountain city and is not suitable for long-term development.
If the Sanada family wants to continue to develop, they need to establish a new stronghold south of Sanada Township, echoing Toishi Castle from the north to the south. And this new stronghold that was favored was the Ueda Castle that was being built.
Ueda Castle is located in the northern part of the Ueda Basin. It forms a defense triangle with Toishi Castle in the northwest and Sanada Township in the northeast. It is an important barrier to stabilize the territory of the Sanada family, so it must be built as soon as possible.
The location of the Sanada family is actually very awkward. The southern part of Kawanaka Island is the territory of the Takeda family, and Yantian City in the southern part of the Ueda Basin is also the territory of the Takeda family. The enfeoffed Sanada collar is sandwiched between the two.
However, the warrior families of the Toxin community in the east did not really admire the Sanada family. The Sanada family has been away from Toshin for too long, and Sanada Yukitaka was just promoted by Takeda Harunobu as the leader of Toshin of the Takeda family's front clan.
The Sanada family was stuck between Toshin and Hoshin, with no opportunity for development. The Takeda family turned around and headed south to Suruga Country, and the Sanada family's expansion also came to a standstill.
Yukitaka Sanada was not satisfied with this.
There are two roads connecting Nishi Ueno to Shinano, one is the Azuma River in the north, and the other is the Usui Pass in the south.
It was impossible for Yukitaka Sanada to attack Nishi Ueno from Usui Pass for two reasons.
First, there is no support from the local martial arts family.
The Usui Pass area belongs to the southern part of Haruna Mountain, and the relationship between the Nishi Ueno samurai family and the Shino clan here is weak. Without a local leading party, force alone may not be able to make the mountain people here bow their heads.
Second, the Takeda family will not allow it.
Yukitaka Sanada was a member of the Shobo clan under the Takeda family. Without Takeda Harunobu's order, how could the Toshin clan be willing to join her in conquering Nishi Ueno? Even the road to Usui Pass will not be open to her.
The Takeda family is conquering the Tokaido in the south and has no intention of participating in the Kanto War, and will not agree to the expansion of the Sanada family's power to avoid the danger of raising tigers.
However, Sanada Nobushige's expansion from the Azuma River on the northern line to Nishi Ueno was the right time, place and people.
From the Matsushiro area, you can go to Kusatsu in Nishi Ueno via Fushi Iiyama. Going north from Sanada-go, you can also enter Otsusa in Nishi Ueno.
Both Kusatsu and Otsusa lead to Haobi Castle, and through Haobi Castle, the two Sanada territories can be connected.
The Hao family of Feather City was the host of the Umino family after they escaped from Shinano, and they were also the Umino family members who coveted the name of the Umino family.
Sanada Nobushige entered Nishi Ueno in the name of Kanto Palace. Sanada Yukitaka didn't need to come forward at all. As long as he hid behind and secretly supported him, the Takeda family couldn't say anything.
After Sanada Nobushige cleans up the Hanao family, takes Hanao Castle to connect to Sanada Township, and then plans to guard Iwaki Castle on the border and open the gate to Nishi Ueno.
It was inconvenient for Sanada Yukitaka to act rashly, and the strategic deadlock of being trapped in Dongshin was completely solved.
Along the Azuma River are all branches of the Shino clan. If they can capture the Azuma River basin, the Sanada family can peek at Numata Castle to the east and threaten Minawa Castle to the south.
Yukitaka Sanada smiled slightly.
When we get to this point, no matter whether we can swallow the entire Nishi Ueno or not, the value of the Sanada family to the Takeda family, the Uesugi family, and the Kanto Palace will be far greater than it is now.
The Sanada family also has the capital to make profits among various families.
